THE RECOGNISED 3-GENERATIONS “KEAN SENG” HAINANESE KOPITIAM RUNNING ON THE MIDDLE NATION @ SELANGOR
“Hainanese Kopitiam” is all the while a kind of the local’s favourite place of dining or chinese coffee shop running by the Hainan migrants since decades being famously & widely practised throughout our nations carrying the combination of authentic hainanese with local chinese’s recipes under a roof on respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the middle nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended Hainanese Kopitiam “Kean Seng” by the Wong family running into 3-generations nearly 70 years from the northern to middle ground at Bandar Sunway, Selangor having great positive response from the market recently.
The Ipoh, Perak local originated Mr. Wong Khee Sin (2nd generation, born 1954), with his wife Madam Cheong Soon Ying (born 1961) and youngest son Mr. Jason Wong Hoong Kuan (3rd generation, born 1987) & brothers are the recent immediate families owners of this best recognised Hainanese Kopitiam “Kean Seng” right on the middle nation territory presenting their Wong family’s 3-generations home recipes in signature menus to the locals and visitors all in an better environmental dining condition at Selangor.
The initial founder late Mr. Wong Thien Seng (Hainan migrant, 1924-1993), Wong Khee Sin’s father who reached Malaysia at his only 10 years old been stepped into the f&b field began as a kopikia (coffee shop helper) at Ipoh, Perak in the year of 1934. Later-on being fully stepped into the career started his very first owned Hainanese Coffee Shop officially named the “Kean Seng Kopitiam” at his 29th of age in the year of 1953 along the Gunung Rapat, Ipoh (Perak) running with his wife on the same ground for decades.
While Wong Khee Sin (2nd generation), who at his age of 70 years old currently, been touched the industry since his teenage helping parents in their family’s kopitiam, then taken up the responsibility to continue the family’s career at his twenties in the year 1980 assisted by wife Cheong Soon Ying stayed for about 40 years on the same ground with their patience. Recently passed onto their sons Jason Wong & brothers, then further their exposure into the middle nation started the first main outlet at Sunway Geo Avenue, Subang Jaya in the year of 2019 and another at Uptown, Damansara Utama in the year 2022 serving all their family’s home recipes to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2024 on the middle nation at Selangor.
In this Kean Seng Kopitiam, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus surely will be their signature “Hainanese Beef Brisket Noodle” which prepared on their Wong family’s 3-generations home recipes. At least 8 hours home-boiled beef soup base with radish & herbals mixture, served with noodles option on customer’s preference (or in dry served with their home-mixed soy sauce broth toppings of beansprout & minced pork), and finally complete with their hours in-house cooked beef shank, tripe & tendon toppings of celery leaves and taken dipping onto their homemade spicy chili paste will always the best matching here. Especially the beef soup’s savory freshness sweet herbs tasty swallowed with the beef shank & tendon’s soft bites itself into mouth that you must have a try when reached Selangor.
Secondly will be their famous “Hainan Dry Curry Noodle”, also among the kopitiam’s daily selection favourite by their visitors recently. Homemade curry paste (with more than 10 spices mixture) cooked with dried beancurd puff (taupok), pork skin & long bean into fresh coconut milk (santan), served with noodles option also on customer’s preference, and complete toppings of shredded chicken, fish cake & crispy beancurd sheet will brings the wonderful fragrance salted spicy curry’s smooth tasty swallowed kind of Hainan Dry Curry Noodle eatery that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Another will be their hometown Ipoh’s local delicacy “Shredded Chicken Noodle Soup”, which also among the local’s wanted selection from the beginning. Flat rice noodle (hor fun) all the way from Ipoh, Perak commonly selected, boiled then served with their few hours home-cooked chicken soup base with fresh prawn shells, finally complete topped of shredded chicken meats, shrimps, chives, chopped spring onions & fried shallots into shrimp oil will brings a hot bowl of their exotic chicken/shrimp’s freshness sweet swollowed kind of Ipoh’s Shredded Chicken Noodle Soup eatery that you will never regret after tasted here.
Some more, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended traditional authentic “Kean Seng Hainanese Breakfast Set” which served in combination with a hot cup of their in-house hand-brewed elegant hainan coffee, sides with a pair of half-boiled village/kampung chicken egg and complete with their home-toasted butter pandan kaya hainan breads (all the way from Ipoh) will always the perfect combination in taking a set of their authentic Hainanese Breakfast here that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Hainanese Kopitiam “Kean Seng Kopitiam” (by Sun Kean Seng Holdings S/B) at Bandar Sunway & Damansara Utama, Selangor.
KEAN SENG KOPITIAM
(SUN KEAN SENG HOLDINGS S/B)
Address: (Sunway Geo Avenue)
No. E1-01-08,
Level 1, Block E1,
Jalan Lagoon Selatan,
Bandar Sunway,
47500 Subang Jaya,
Selangor.
(Business Hours: 10:00am to 9:00pm)
(Damansara Uptown)
No. 31-G,
Jalan SS21/60,
Damansara Utama,
47400 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor.
(Business Hours: 7:30am to 7:00pm)